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Data belonging to 14 million U.S.-based Verizon customers have been exposed on an unprotected AWS Server by a partner of the telecommunications company.
The notorious security expert Chris Vickery, UpGuard director of cyber risk research. as made another disconcerting discovery, more than 14 million US customers’ personal details have been exposed a

A backup containing sensitive information on more than 100,000 AA customers was exposed online, but the company didn’t disclose the incident.
UK car insurance company AA is being heavily criticized over its handling of a data breach that exposed customer email addresses and partial credit card number in April.
A server misconfiguration is the root caus

The UK Parliament has suffered the biggest ever cyber attack against the email systems, it shut down external access to mitigate the threat.
The UK Parliament has shut down external access to e-mail accounts on Saturday after a cyberattack.
According to the authorities, the attack was “sustained and determined,” hackers launched a prolonged brute

A massive dump of Microsoft’s confidential Windows 10 internal builds, and the source codes for private software has been leaked online.
A huge trove of Microsoft internal Windows operating system builds and portions of core source code have leaked online. The news was first reported by The Register, the 32TB of official and non-public installation ima

Russians hackers are offering for sale on the dark web login credentials of thousands of top UK politicians, top officials, and diplomats.
According to The Times, Russians hackers are selling on the dark web login credentials of thousands of top UK politicians, top officials, and diplomats.
Journalists at the British newspaper have found two huge lists of st

The popular security expert Chris Vickery revealed the DRA firm left 1.1 TB of data unsecured on an Amazon S3, 198 million US voter records exposed.
Researcher Chris Vickery has found nearly 200 million voter records in an unsecured Amazon S3 bucket maintained by Deep Root Analytics (DRA), it is the largest exposure of its kind in history.
The records includ

The FBI agents arrested the NSA contractor Reality Leigh Winner for leaking the top-secret report, here’s how she was identified.
Yesterday the online news outlet The Intercept published a top-secret NSA report that shows Russian state-sponsored hackers tried repeatedly to hack the US voting systems before last 2016 Presidential election.
A few hours

A top defense contractor left tens of thousands sensitive Pentagon documents on Amazon Server Without any protection in places.
The popular security expert Chris Vickery discovered more than 60,000 sensitive files belonging to a US military project for the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) left on Amazon cloud storage server without authenticati

Opponents of U.S. President Trump are currently locked into scoring political points over alleged leaks from the White House during a meeting with top Russian envoys.
Yet, classified details of the meeting leaked to press outlets by either the CIA or NSA shows massive breaches of valuable sources and details from inside U.S. intelligence agencies are now dam

A CIS study estimated number of Aadhaar numbers leaked through 4 gov portals could be around 135 million and 100M bank account numbers.
The Aadhaar is the world’s largest biometric ID system, with over 1.123 billion enrolled members as of 28 February 2017.
The role of the system is crucial for both authenticating and authorizing transactions and is a pillar

Personal information associated with more than a million Aadhaar numbers published on Jharkhand govt website due to a technical problem.
Digital identities of more than a million citizens have been exposed due to a coding error on a website maintained by the Jharkhand Directorate of Social Security.
“We got to know about it this week itself. Our programmers

Thousands of users of the Microsoft searchable Docs.com service have inadvertently exposed passwords and other private information on the Internet.
Bad news for thousands of users of the Microsoft searchable Docs.com service who have inadvertently exposed passwords and other private information on the Internet.
The Docs.com service allows people to easily ex

The McDelivery application used by McDonald’s customers in India was found to be leaking the personal data of more than 2.2 million users.
McDelivery is a web application used by McDonald’s customers in India that was found to be leaking the personal information of more than 2.2 million users.
The issue was discovered by researchers at security startup Fall

A new scam is capitalizing on reports of ‘Celebgate 2.0′ by making off with users’ personal information and posting spam on Twitter.According to several media outlets, hackers have published the private photos of multiple female actresses including Emma Watson, Amanda Seyfried, Dylan Penn, and others. Some are calling these leaks “Cel